Girdle and garter combination



Feb. 27, 1951 GLENN 2,543,526

' GIRDLE AND GARTER COMBINATION Filed Jan. 25, 1949 INVENTOR *6 I EDW HWFILTER GLENN g M ATTORN EY Patented Feb. 27, 1951 UNlTED STATES EATENTOFFICE GIRDLE AND GARTER COMBKNATION Edward Walter Glenn, New York, N.Y. Application January 25, 1949, Serial No. 72,620

3 Claims. 1

This invention relates to an improved girdle and garter combination.

With girdles of womens apparel it has been customary either permanentlyto fasten or removably attach garters or hose supporters adjacent to thelower edge of the girdle. If the wearer wishes to roll up such girdleswithout entirely removing the same in the interest of comfort or thelike, either the garters would have to be removed from the hose if thegarters are permanently attached to the girdle, or the garters wouldhave to be removed from the girdle if the garters were removablyattached to the girdle. In either case, the stockings of the wearerwould be without support and drop down into disarray.

To this end the present invention aims to provide an improved girdle andgarter combination in which the garter may be partly liberated from thegirdle to enable the girdle to be rolled up without freeing the hose, sothat the hose will still remain taut and supported.

More specifically, the present invention aims to provide an improvedgirdle and garter combination in which the garters composed of elasticmaterial are considerably longer than the conventional garters and havetheir upper ends permanently secured to the girdle and intermediateportions adjacent the lower end of the girdle removably attached to thegirdle, so that the wearer may with facility roll up the girdle bymerely detaching the garters from the lower edge thereof and yet notinterfere with the hose supporting function of the garters, since thegarters will still be attached to the hose and still be attached attheir upper ends to a portion of the girdle removed from the lower edgeof the girdle.

These and other features, capabilities and advantages of the inventionwill appear from the subjoined detail description of specificembodiments thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFig. 1 is a front elevation of one embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a second embodiment.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation on a smaller scale of still a thirdembodiment showing one pair of garters attached to a hose.

The improved girdle and garter combination according to the severalembodiments consists essentially of a girdle, a set of garters havingelastic extensions or strips permanently secured at their upper ends tothe girdle at a point removed from the lower edge of the girdle, andremovably attached at intermediate portions thereof to the girdle at apoint adjacent to the lower edge of the girdle.

According to the embodiment shown in Fig. l, the girdle i has two reargarters 2 and 3 and two front garters t and 5 which have elasticextensions or strips 6, l, 8 and 9, respectively, permanently secured attheir upper ends at Ill, in the present instance by stitching or thelike to the inner face of the girdle l. Complemental snap fasteners Hare provided to detachably secure intermediate portions of the garters2, 3, 3 and 5 to the inner faces of the lower end of the girdle I.Excellent results have been achieved when the female portions of thesnap fasteners H are permanently secured to the inner face of the lowerend of the girdle I, and the male fastener portions of the snapfasteners H are secured to intermediate portions of the garters 2,3, 4and 5, as shown in Fig. 1. To the lower ends of the garters 2, 3, l and5 any suitable hose connecting means l2 may be provided withoutdeparting from the general spirit of the invention.

The embodiment disclosed in Fig. 2 departs from the embodiment disclosedin Fig. 1 primarily in that the elastic extensions l3 and 14 for therear garters l5 and i5 form an apex I! with one another, which apex llalone is stitched to the girdle l8, and that the extensions I9 and 253for the front garters 2! and 22, respectively, are connected in the formof an apex 23 at their upper ends, which apex 23 alone is permanentlystitched to the girdle l8. Otherwise the extensions it, i i, 59 and 2dare entirely free from the girdle it; just as is the case with theextensions 6, l, 8 and ii except that they may be removably attached bysnap fasteners 2% to the inner face of the lower end of the girdle 28.

In turn, the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 3 is distinguished from theembcdiment illustrated in Fig. 1 primarly in that the front elasticextension 25 and rear elastic tension 26 for each leg are connected toone another in the form of an apex 21, which alone is permanentlystitched to a side of the girdle 28. Here too the extensions 25 and 26are entirely free of the girdle 23 except when removably attached to thelower end of the girdle by means such as the snap fasteners 29.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made to thedetails of construction Without departing from the general spirit of theinvetnion as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A girdle and garter combination having a of the girdle for detachablysecuring intermediate In portions of the elastic strips to the lower endof said girdle.

2. The girdle and garter combination set forth in claim 1 in which thedetachable fastening means consist of complementary snap fasteners whichare disposed to detachably secure the intermediate portions of theelastic strips to the inner face of the girdle.

3. The girdle and garter combination set forth in claim 1 in which theupper ends of two adjacent elastic strips are secured to one another andto the girdle.

EDWARD WALTER GLENN.

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